PDF shell manipulations

pdftricks.sh

# this is a work in progress notepad, will include pdftk and ghostscript stuff

# replace page 13 of doc1.pdf with doc2.pdf
pdftk A=doc1.pdf B=doc2.pdf cat A1-12 B1 A14-end output out1.pdf

# remove the first 4 pages from in.pdf
pdftk A=in.pdf cat A5-end output out.pdf

# use ghostscript to combine PDFs
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -sOutputFile=finished.pdf  file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf

# use ghostscript to split a PDF by page
# only works with gs version 9.06+
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dSAFER -o outname.%d.pdf input.pdf